Folks, we are hours away from New Year’s and you know what that means: ALCOHOL! Champagne, beer, Tom Collinses, I don’t care. Any way is a good way. Of course, this year, I will be imbibing in the privacy of my own home with my Christmas pajamas on. But I thought I’d make something festive to celebrate anyway. Champagne jello shots!
Ok, these are actually butterbeer jello shots from Rock Ur Party, but they’re on the Champagne jello shot blog post at Perpetually Engaged.
As noted in the caption above, this is not really a picture of the recipe I found. Probably because the recipe does not look like that. Sigh. I knew this going in, but did that stop me? Hell no. I wanted a Champagne vehicle.
My first problem? I have never, ever seen white sparking grape jello in the store. I don’t think it exists.
So, I got the closest thing I could find.
I know I know. Cue the angry readers.
You never do it right, OMG. If you would just follow the fucking directions your shit wouldn’t be so shitty. What are you– stupid? I’m never reading this blog ever, ever again.
Fine. Guilty as charged. But I think that if you want me to do it right, you should mail me some sparkling white grape jello. Go ahead:
Sonja Foust
PMB 221
4711 Hope Valley Rd Ste 4F
Durham, NC 27707
I’m serious. In fact, I think I’m going to make this my standing disclaimer. Fill my box, people.
Anyway, I pressed on.
Awesomest thing about this recipe? You add the champagne post-boil so as not to lose any of that lovely alcohol content.
Second awesomest thing? Now you have an open bottle of champagne, and even though you are still wearing your HO HO HO pajamas, no one will know if you take a swig before you put everything back in the refrigerator.
Four hours later, I cut and dished the jello. Uhh…
And even though this ended up looking like a pile of purple intestines and I didn’t even bother with the sprinkles, they tasted pretty good. And had champagne in them.
So not a total loss.
Happy New Year to you, Pintestes! I wish you health, wealth, and fails that at least will get you drunk.
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I know the white grape exists here in Ohio, I’ve seen it before but that was like 10 years ago, haven’t looked for it recently. I think the purple one probably tastes better, actually any color tastes good with booze it in.
From the looks of the consistency…these would work better as jello shooters in shot glasses than cutting them into shapes. I always wondered that about the jello shots that look so pretty and cut nicely on pinterest.
And I too have never seen sparkling grape jello in stores. I’m not entirely sure it really exists…
i think ( i may be wrong) those pretty shots have extra geletin in them for consistency.
You should have used orange jello so they would be mimosa jello shots and you could eat them for breakfast.
Or Peach jello, for Bellini jello shots ;D my favorite!
Fill my Box! LMAO
This was pretty much awesome. Do I see a butter beer jello shot test in the near future? I mean, you have to do the picture your own twisted justice.
According to Jello’s website. the sparkling jellos don’t exist any more. They also don’t make non-sparkling white grape, so clearly the fault is not yours! It is true that to get the happy little squares, you have to add an additional pack of unflavored gelatin, but whatever. Tastes good. Contains champagne, and it’s not like you’re serving it to Martha Stewart anyway. Win.
Ha! “Fill my box.” and “Pin-testes”! …I’m drunk right now.
I have made jell-o shots out of the “sparkling” jell-o flavors in the past. The only thing that made them sparkling was that you added club soda instead of water. They actually were really good though…but you could’ve used just plain unflavored gelatin (two packs) and it would’ve tasted more like champagne and less like grape.
If you ever start accurately following the directions I am going to quit reading your blog. So there.
Agreed. I second that remark.
I agree as well.
Dude, the “angry reader” comment made me spit some of my wine out. Fucking hilarious.
What? No “Nailed it” caption on the after pic?
Please don’t ever follow the directions. You give us all hope.
I would have enjoyed a shot of your Ho Ho Ho PJs. I’m assuming that’s Santa’s laugh and not a statement regarding your personal activities (although, if it’s the latter, I need to find out where you bought them as my friend needs a set of those and and some therapy). Thanks for “working” on the holiday. I’ll continue to knock back my Brandy Alexander in your honor….then I’ll surely pass out.
You can catch a glimpse of the pants in the tea kettle reflection. 😉
The sparkling flavors were some of my favorites, but they were all discontinued. Boo 🙁
Looks like this grape jelly that my mom gets, where you squeeze it out like shampoo. Same exact color and it comes out pretty much looking like that. Although I would hope the alcohol level in the jelly is considerably lower.
Oh man, I remember the Sparkling Jell-os that were out. That was when I was a teenager, though, I think. (I’m almost 30 now! Eep!) I haven’t seen it in AGES, though!!!
Challenge accepted! As soon as I’m back in England I’m gonna search the stores for some nice sparkly jello 🙂
Thanks for making all of our New Years a little brighter Pintester! Here’s to a year of many many more failed pins!
Oh…..and what about a Tom Collins Jello Shot? Hendrick’s Gin and Lemon or Lime Jello….it’s 8:47 am here…time to hit the kitchen!
You know you’re gonna get a shit ton of sparkling grape jello, right?
How do you get the sprinkles to adhere? Not the point, I know. 😉 Just mystified. Have made jello shots many a time, but always doubled the jello proportions for extra “turgidity”.
lick it first? then dunk? idk.. water maybe? lol
The sparkling jello has been Discontinued! http://jello.wikia.com/wiki/Sparkling_White_Grape
After I found out what jello is made out of, I decided I didn’t like it anymore.
I’m going to go raid my jello stash and liquor cabinet. I think boozey jello is the perfect after work snack.
I’ve had the sparkling jello, but ’twas a loong-ass time ago. I’m sad it’s not made anymore.
As to your jello shots? The champagne made the grape jello all neato looking. What you did with it afterwards is what brings me back here time and time again – please don’t ever start following directions babe!
After high school we went to party at the beach and decided to make Jello shots. Who the hell knew you had to put water in those bitches? Not me. So of course vodka+ Jello powder won’t set. Not even in the freezer. We were too not 21 to buy more vodka so we drank that slimy shit. Never again. Yours looks much better than ours.
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I feel like you’re the Mythbuster of Pinterest. I can’t tell you how many local mama’s craft-shame each other. “This? Oh I just made these chocolate butterflies an hour or two ago during little Tyler’s naptime..” Bullsh*t!! There’s no way half of these people could produce perfect results, the first time, with this list of stuff. Either their hiding a secret ingredient or a sous chef in their closet. Thanks for making the rest of us feel human. <3
Seriously – do you know what it is/how gelatin is made? Not enough alcohol around for me to eat that shit. However I do appreciate your efforts and enjoy your blog!
gelatin is nasty! there are PLENTY of agar agar shot recipes online. it’s like jello but plant based. =D crafts with liquor ftw!
Gelatin (which comes from collagen) is what makes barbecue and pot roast so moist and yummy. So, yeah, we know where it comes from. And we eat it.
you’d be surprised how many people don’t know that, though. i dont bother with it in any form. but i get where you’re going with it.
So I got a huge thing of agar for biology lab class I did. I soo did that experiment wrong. I was like the pintester of my biology class, I tried so hard to follow the directions, but alas it didn’t always work. I still passed, so I’ll take it. 😀
a. i love you. you make the pinterest realities the best.
b. if you ever want to get serious about some boozy jello shots try this place out: this is the second year in a row where i’ve made several batches from their website and they’ve turned out pretty awesome. and not super difficult… also… jello as a medium for booze only ever seems to work with high quantities of vodka… go figure……
http://jelly-shot-test-kitchen.blogspot.com/p/recipes.html
When an angry reader actually send you the sparkling white grape jello, let me know and give me their return address… I’ll return the favor by sending them 20 boxes of the purple grape jello! I love your fails!
I’ve made jello shots with loads of types of jello and alcohols, sans fizz. Maybe the sprinkles would’ve been good to mask the ugly gelatinous fizz-ello tops. Still, rock on, jello shots rule.
The white sparkling grape jello flavor is discontinued
YOU.ARE.MY.HERO!
<3
Sonja, I would like to see what you do with all the white sparkling grape jello when you get like 50,000 boxes in the mail from readers. lol
For sturdier jello you can just double (use 2 boxes) the amount of powder that you use for the recipe.
Yeah they don’t make that Jello flavor anymore… I did have it when I was a kid though… I remember it, green box and bubbly when you made it. So good!
FYI http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2247,158179-238203,00.html… Just in case you wanted to try this again. Your blog IS hilarious as is, though.
So, can we only send your discontinued jello, or can we also send you other random jello flavors? What about random crap that we find at the flea market and stuff? :p
You’re hilarious!!!! Did you ever get any JELLO in your box?
I found Jolly Rancher sour apple jello on New Years eve. Went straight to the liquor store and bought sour apple vodka! Yum!:
It’s not like your average person is going to follow every single direction to the T. What you do is more like what I would do. I’m not going to go out and buy some weird shit that I’ll never use again just so I can make ONE thing from Pinterest correctly. Welcome to the real world of slightly lazy people, angry reader.
I usually make my champaign ones with strawberry or watermelon jello….and well, pour them into shot cups because I am too lazy to cut squares out after the fact. I like to set it and forget it.
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If you wanted to try this again, you can use a couple envelopes of Knox plain gelatin in there, it will become a lot more solid and will be usable. That’s how we would make “Finger Jello” in the 70’s before they started calling them Jello Jigglers. my two cents.
I love your blog which I came across on Pinterest. Keep this up, this is great.
Sad that the recipe don’t work 🙁
I think if you even used sparkling grape jell-o it still woulda turned out wrong lol. Jell-o is jell-o. and let’s face it, who actually follows directions when doing a pinterest pin…i never do lol
How is it ever possible to cut jello out in perfect little squares??? Everytime i try, it’s an EPIC fail! Props for trying, and i’m sure they still tasted yummy!
I honestly think it’s some kind of square mold or something, ’cause half the edges taste like, well, edges!
I did this, got it off PIN as well.. and they turned out just like yours..
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I actually appreciate your substitutions because in real life you cannot always find that stuff! PS- I dont think sparkling jello exists anymore.
Hmm…what if you used the jello they make for soda pop, and used the champagne instead? Although, I’m pretty sure it’s just unflavored gelatin in a jello branded box.
you have to add extra gelatine into the jello to make it stiff enough to cut into squares
This one you would want to use the jiggler recipe! More jello – less liquid!